I've had a bit of work come through the past couple of weeks which has kept me busy here in Adelaide.  I delivered leaflets for a couple of days with an aussie fellow, getting $50 each time.  Also I worked two days in a furniture shop warehouse, moving the stock around as directed by the boss, I did it with another bloke from the hostel and the days went pretty quick, $20 a hour, 9 - 5, however the stock consisting mainly of garden tables and chairs was quite heavy going and my poor pencil pushing hands took a battering, I've got a blister on my hand the size of an apple.  Lastly I worked today painting a house, an Aussie couple rent houses and are doing up a recently vacated property, so they called up the hostel asking for two people who can paint, me with my previous hostel painting experience was the natural choice.

Helen has had more consistent work at the restaurant, with more hours coming her way now and she is working 20-30 hours per week.  Also Helen put her artistic talent to work and drew an advert for a tour on the hostel window (picture below), it took a couple of afternoons but the owner gave her $150 for her troubles.

Other than work we visited the maritime museum in Port Adelaide which was good, lots of interesting stuff on the medical procedures in the Royal Navy.  Port Adelaide itself was nothing special, in fact there wasn't much there at all, which shows as I didn't bother taking any photos of the place.

We also visited the Gorge National Park where they have lots of Aussie wildlife, we saw alligators and wombats and even got to cuddle a koala! A must if visiting Australia.

I saw my first thunderstorm here in Australia the other day, we watched it out on the balcony for a good half an hour trying (and eventually succeeding) in taking a photo of it.

Apart from work and trips out we are also planning our next stage of travel, as it stands we are thinking of staying here for about three more weeks then we will move onto Melbourne.